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		emmelaich 14 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What does " 2>&1 " mean? Yep, there's a strong unifying feel between the Unix api, C, the shell, and also say Perl. Which is lost when using more modern or languages foreign to Unix.

tkcranny 14 days ago [–]

Python too under the hood, a lot of its core is still from how it started as a quick way to do unixy/C things.

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